Scoop: George W. Bush, stepping up efforts to raise money for Jeb, to headline fundraiser in New York on Sept. 10 http://t.co/kPHEafDIZb
— Matea Gold (@mateagold) August 26, 2015
Any odds on whether 9/11 gets mentioned?…
Conventional Wisdom has been that the Establishment wing of the GOP might be racist, sexist, homophobic, narrow-minded sclerotics who never got over the Cold War — but at least they were “competent” in the narrowest political terms. The Bush Crime Family seems determined to add trashing that CW as the cherry on top of their destruction of so much else in our beleaguered republic.
The next shoe:
Eric Cantor, who evidently wants Jeb Bush to lose the nomination, will endorse Jeb Bush on Thursday http://t.co/l4FnRpTjKv
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) August 27, 2015
.@Olivianuzzi Do the other campaigns have enough money to put video of the Cantor endorsement on the air?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 27, 2015
Baud
Wait, Jeb!’s problem is lack of funds?!
Gin & Tonic
Quoting Kaus? Aren’t we suffering enough already out here? And fuck Olivia Nuzzi, too, who was all over HRC today for the crime of telling the truth about the Republicans.
Mike in NC
People will remember the bad stuff that happened in NYC on another day in September, mainly because Dubya was an incompetent asshole who refused to do his job.
Frankensteinbeck
Conventional Wisdom, defined as the assumptions around which the national news media frame their reporting, is that the establishment wing of the GOP are serious, responsible, intelligent adults who understand that sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. It’s shrill and rude to suggest that they might be motivated by anything worse than a sincere desire to channel the sometimes crudely stated but admirable common sense of the American People, who want a disciplined government, personal liberty, and to help minorities by removing structural incentives to underperform.
Isn’t that exactly how they frame Republican bigotry?
EDIT – Okay, throw in the words ‘strength’ and ‘leadership’ a few times. But it’s the same attitude.
piratedan
@Gin & Tonic: destroys the horse race narrative and dammit, they have to create clickbait don’t they?
Zinsky
The Democrats should flood the airwaves in NYC with ads reminding people of how weak George W. Bush was on terrorism. After all, the unelected creep received multiple warnings that a significant terrorist attack was coming and did nothing – NOTHING – to prevent it. He also didn’t get Usama bin Laden in the entire seven years after 9-11. It took Obama three years to get him! Attack these corrupt, filthy scum where their supposed strengths are!
jl
@Baud: But, what else can they do? If all you have is a hammer…
At this point, Jeb? might was well have Dub go out campaign for him, advertise that Dub and his crew will be advising on foreign policy, and try to persuade people that Dub will make better decisions this time around. I notice in the new national poll that the defining characteristic of Jeb? for most voters is ‘Bush’ anyway, so why not play to his strength? At least Dub knows how to campaign.
New poll also shows the ghastly havoc a Trump third party bid would do to the GOP. It is ghastly.
Donald Trump Leads GOP Race With Widest Margin
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/polltracker/quinnipiac-poll-donald-trump-leads-gop
Click the link at the top of the post to see the complete poll results.
Luthe
Two endorsements that will have as much weight with the American public as a paper bag full of hot air. But the pundits will love it!
beltane
Could R2R and Eric Cantor be the same person?
Anne Laurie
@Zinsky:
Hell, just juxtapose Dubya’s “you’ve covered your ass” quote with the news photo during the disaster of him sitting in the kiddy chair with a picture book on his lap and his best American Idiot expression on his face…
Geeno
@efgoldman: Sir, you slur the good name of opossums!
I demand satisfaction.
But …
M. Bouffant
Jeeze, I coulda sworn Mickey Kaus was dead. Guess Trump’s immigrant bashing has given him a new lease on life.
Lamh36
Roger Moore
@Frankensteinbeck:
You forgot about freeing our job creators from the shackles of excessive taxes.
mai naem mobile
I’ve been hearing a bunch of Katrina stuff and with memories fading etc. I had kind of forgotten how absolutely unbelievably ridiculously incompetent the Bushies were. I cannot fucking believe Republicans won Louisiana. I know about the loss of the black NOLA population but still. How can anybody,forget Louisiana,vote for such incompetence again? The assholes just left people to die.
FlyingToaster
@beltane: Not a chance; Cantor’s already in the right-wing-welfare system; RtR is auditioning using his penny-per-post routine.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Anne Laurie: “Ah don’t spend that much time thinking about him, to be honest with you”, slouching on the podium. Just makes my head spin that his brother can be taken seriously as a candidate, especially after calling him a great president, and bringing his worst foreign policy advisors on to his campaign. In public. Without a second thought.
I heard he had a cardiac event during some unspecified strenuous activity, and got the kiss of life from a goat that happened to be in the room, for some reason. People are saying.
Lamh36
speaking of GWB, President Obama came to NOLA for the 10 year rememberance of Katrina and apparently GWB will be here tomorrow. Ipbe interesting to see if he walks amongst the locals, like Obama did today.
oh and Bill C will be here Saturday for the actual remembrance ceremony on the actual date Katrina made landfall
Jeffro
Perhaps Cantor could un-pick my lottery numbers for tomorrow’s MegaMillions drawing? All 17 million combinations of them
It would be irresponsible not to speculate…
gocart mozart
Benghazi?
Zinsky
@Anne Laurie: True dat!
craigie
@jl:
From the link:
This should be fun.
Roger Moore
@mai naem mobile:
Because of who they left to die.
SRW1
Why should they? Does Mickey Kaus seriously think Cantor’s endorsement makes any difference one way or another?
schrodinger's cat
Open thread needs anchor kitten
rikyrah
So, the smart one needs fundraising help from Shrub?
Oy
trollhattan
@beltane:
While I’d love to sentence Cantor to a lifetime in mom’s basement he’s instead busy harvesting sweet, sweet bankster money, like he’d always planned. i.e., the fucker fell up, like all “good people” do.
Also, too, as a sometime photographer I’m always looking for compelling work. Here’s a shot taken by Mark Wallheiser at a The Donald Alabama rally. Quite the catch, I think you’ll agree.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Wow, Nicholas Kristoff just dropped the “What does Biden know about the emails” troll on Hillary. Do NYT columnists read the Post?
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
Well, there’s a reason the Donald has started seeking campaign donations as well. It’s probably not the money that he needs; what he needs is donors buying in to what he’s doing.
Wally Ballou
Mets and Phils are tied 5-5 in the 11th, after the Mets turned the craziest goddamn play you’ve ever seen to get out of the 10th.
jl
@mai naem mobile: Incompetence might explain Dub’s and Brown’s behavior. I think some in the administration had criminal intent. I suppose if there are any in the administration who deserve any credit at all, they would be the aides who managed to focus oblivious Dub’s attention on the disaster that had unfolded. Didn’t some people make a CD-ROM of horrible pics and get Dub to watch it?
jl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: One nice thing about a Biden run, would be he would get a lot of media attention, and he would be more willing than ever to tell people go stuff their BS way far up their asses and chew on it. And do it with a smile.
trollhattan
@Wally Ballou:
Whoa, not a beezball person but give it up for that–amazing play on both their parts. Love how the runner shoved the pitcher past the bag, after the play was made.
trollhattan
@jl:
How many “malarkeys” per week?
SiubhanDuinne
@Wally Ballou:
Holee fuck.
Cervantes
So much misery encapsulated in that one photograph — and George W. had not yet even occupied the White House.
Mike J
David Waldman @KagroX 34m34 minutes ago
College campuses on gun lockdowns today: Mississippi State, Texas Southern, Savannah State.
Roger Moore
@Wally Ballou:
I have occasionally seen crazier plays than that, but it’s certainly on the crazy side. And it may have finished the inning but “get out of the 10th” is usually reserved for cases where there was some kind of a threat, not when it’s just the final out when the bases are empty.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Wally Ballou:
I can’t find the clip, but I was actually at Wrigley Field the day of the “immaculate deflection”:
http://wrigleyvillenation.com/2014/08/02/cubs-calendar-august-2-1984/?utm_content=bufferf3c0c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
You couldn’t really see it from the stands, but it was on every TV station that night.
jl
@efgoldman: That includes their mascot, I guess.
Goblue72
@M. Bouffant: And a new goat.
Goblue72
@efgoldman: What’s a consequence? That’s one of them gay feminazi things isn’t it?
jl
@efgoldman: That kind of scandalous behavior is why MLB needs its own Goodell!
dedc79
@efgoldman: this mets fan tends to agree. Hoping this lead they’re building is enough to finish off the sweep
Also, it looks like the Nats just lost Spann for the rest of the season.
Gex
@Lamh36: why do I suspect that avoiding eye contact while black is also frowned upon by cops.
PurpleGirl
@schrodinger’s cat: That’s a cute Feline American.
Punchy
@Gex: Today, in suburban KS, a cop’s back window exploded. He, of course, called it in as if he’d been shot at (and car hit). All local schools go on lockdown; road is closed. “Possible shooter on the loose” scaring all the SHMs and helicopter parents for a 10 mile radius.
Except……cop’s window had a stress fracture; it broke on its own. No shots. No shooter. A shit-ton of “abundance of caution” excuses from everyone. Fuckin Christ on a Triscuit, coppers. Way to finally own up, 8 hours later.
Helen
Trump referred to Jorge Ramos as “the Spanish reporter” today. And no one picked up on it.
mdblanche
@jl: Other things from that poll I find interesting:
Moderates (sic) are Jeb’s best demographic. They’re also Rubio’s, Kasich’s, Christie’s… and Trump’s. Trump leads them 31 to 13 for Jeb.
Carson’s worst demographic are Tea Partiers. Cruz is just 4 points behind Trump with them. And they provide what few supporters Rand still has.
In the general election match-ups, Sanders has softer support with minority voters than Clinton while doing a bit better with white voters.
Jeb inspires more responses with dynastic implications than Clinton does.
The candidates look more interchangeable than not in the general election match-ups, but the predictive value of a Quinnipiac poll 14+ months in advance is nil.
Amir Khalid
@mdblanche:
You’re no fun. Pout.
/Horse-race political news media
jibeaux
@trollhattan: did you the mockup someone did where everyone’s face was replaced by the crazy bat boy lady face? It was…unsettling.
mdblanche
Speaking of RNC luzers shamelessly showing their faces again:
jibeaux
The predictive value of the 14 month out polls may be nil, but the comedic and psychological analysis valued are high.
Sometimes I like to just remember what a nut ball Ross Perot was. Who would cop now to voting for him, even though millions did? And Ross Perot made some decent points and wasn’t to my knowledge a raging racist. Yet Trump supporters will just admit it.
jl
@mdblanche: Boykin also signed. And judging from the examples given, their arguments are as bad or worse than the rogue’s gallery of names suggests.
jl
@efgoldman: I agree that polls now don’t mean much for the general election. I was looking at it for info about the GOP primary. Any evidence that a Trump third party bid will devastate the GOP candidate will encourage the RNC brass to be very careful about Trump. I read an article that gives the history of the RNC’s pants pissing fear of Trump going back to 2010. I don;t follow that stuff very closely and hand no idea how long they have been scared to death of the guy.
mdblanche
@Amir Khalid: I also enjoy telling kids there’s no Santa Claus.
@efgoldman: True. Of course, the primaries are mere months away as opposed to more than a year.
Omnes Omnibus
@mdblanche: A quick eyeball says mostly Zoomie and Swabby. Also, I didn’t recognize a single army name as someone who had a reputation in strategic affairs.
feebog
The entire Republican nomination process has turned into a first rate turdburner. I still think Trump will fade over the next couple months and be trailing badly by Thanksgiving. What I can’t figure out at this point is trailing who? I know this; Perry is toast, Paul its right behind him, and Christie can forget about it.
jl
@feebog: I had the thought I couple of days ago that this cycle is kind of an inverted inside-out version of 2012. Back then a bunch of bozos rode up and down on the wingnut preference roller coaster, and Romney was slowly rising in second place though it all.
Now, Trump is steadily rising above all the other bozos who are riding the GOP primary crazy base preference kiddie car roller coaster up and down far below.
Except maybe Carson has solidified at a solid far back second? Or maybe he is just currently on top? He seems the only possible exception.
Edit: but since all the possibilities are so awful, how much difference does it make, I ask myself.
mdblanche
@efgoldman: Convicted of lying to Congress and obstructing their investigation. Overturned on appeal. Secord plead out to making false statements to Congress and got probation.
kdaug
@Zinsky: now watch this drive
Barney
Cantor was just an establishment Republican who wasn’t sufficiently crazy for the Tea Party, wasn’t he? It’s not as if losing something is a problem for the Republican nomination process – Santorum lost his Senate seat in a big way, and he won Iowa last time. Fiorina ran a joke of a campaign for senator, and they’re taking her seriously. And Mickey Kaus got a massive 5.3% in the California Democratic senate primary in 2010. That didn’t stop him running his mouth off telling others why they were wrong.
bystander
@Zinsky: I think New Yorkers in the main understand that. Flood the airways in upstate New York and all over eastern Pennsylvania. They’re the people who need to wake up and smell the coffee.
qwerty42
@efgoldman: I don’t expect Trump to be the nominee, but his rise and devoted following are surprising. I expect next to hear that once August is past, he will fade, but I don’t see that (yet).
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
I hope they keep trotting out George W and Cheney (giving a speech on the Iran deal sometime soon) at regular intervals. That can only do Democrats good. The fact that Jeb? doesn’t realize this is strong evidence that he’s too stupid to be President.
boatboy_srq
Looking at that photo, I’m struck that JEB?s sneer is actually worse than his brother’s – and looks a lot like Walker’s smarmy smirk. Is it something Reichwingnuts are taught? Because back in 2000 I thought it was a uniquely Shrubby thing…